Refractory

n.

OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles.

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Sea-pen

n.

A pennatula.

Notochordal

a.

Of or pertaining to the notochord; having a notochord.

Licorous

a.

See Lickerish.

Formality

n.

The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal.

Flatter

n.

A flat-faced fulling hammer.

Flush

v. t.

To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.

Uti possidetis

The basis or principle of a treaty which leaves belligerents mutually in possession of what they have acquired by their arms during the war.

Nemathecia

pl.

of Nemathecium

Rough

adv.

In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.

Alchemistic

a.

Alt. of Alchemistical

Heap

n.

A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile.

Keelhauling

p. pr. & vb. n.

of Keelhaul